By the way Wacom Knight, I happen to be a 2D trained animator, and the board with the most 2D animation people on it has to be the one at www.animationnation.com… but do not be a d!ck on that board…there are some 2D animation greats/pros that frequent those boards…

PS: your welcome

Originally posted by Wacom_Knight
[B]It also may have to do with ignoring peoples questions and not helping anybody out, that could also be a reason people have stopped posting here just like I am going to do now KNOWING the guys in the animation section are too busy with thier “discussion” to help anyone.

Wacom whining never gets you anywhere. I think the reason ppl didn’t answer you original Q is because this thread is about a different topic. Why not start your own thread if you want talk about something completey different. And how about showing some class while you’re at it.

on with the thread…

First thing I do when I come to CGtalk is look for animation tests to crit. I even crit the bad animation cuz I think once you start realizing the whole weight and timing thing, you start to “get it” and some new animators just aren’t there yet. But with crit.s I think they start to figure it out. I hope so anyway. If I had a library of rigged characters I’d probably do lots of tests at home and post them here. But I hate modeling so work is the only place that sees my animation tests. Sorry. Maybe one day I’ll get my ass in gear and build something.

I haven’t checked out animation file yet, its actually just under 6 megs. It’s good that you posted it and, but I think you should compress it a bit more perhaps with DIVX or somthing…

I think thats a bit of a downfall with the animation section actually…
I’m heaps more likely to check out the WIP section because it’s a bit easier on the download sizes but I think people could compress things to an appropriate size here.

Also neolee40, you should start a new thread from with your tests… It would probably get a good response, and ed209 would be happy…

The focus on that thread is primarily character animation. Seems like allot of talented animators are posting there work on that site. Highly recomended visit if you havn’t aleady had a chance to check it out. You may just learn something.

mo_pic: Sounds interesting. But how do you plan to bridge the software gap and keep a consistant look?

neolee40: What do you mean that your work isn’t good enough to go on a site like this? Your animation is fine. You did a fine job of demonstrating your skills and it’s obvious that more time, blood, sweat and tears went into it as the head models, car models, and creature models on this site. You have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of and certainly shouldn’t feel that it doesn’t add up.

Thanks for the pat on the back!! This is my working progress character! CHECK OUT THE LINK My strong point isn’t modeling. And i’m want to be an animator!! So i thought a character with pivot points would make my life easier!! when animating Tell us which one you thinkis better???/ Hopfully once mycomputer has rendered i will have some animation for you guys to see!!!

p.s Do you think there should a section of CG TALK just for animation’s??? casue when you post you animation up people don’t really get a cjance to see it casue so much stuff goes up and the animation you just posted just goes furter down the list???

Good point there Rogue. Didn’t think about the different software. I must say I have no idea how we could fix it, but I’ll think fo something.

ed209 - I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to reveal my little secret to everybody. It’s like telling somebody how the movie ends. But if you are interested I can send you the story. Till then I’ll keep it a secret.

mo_pic: I don’t remember what your other avatar was. The pig is cool. Let us know if you can determine a way for multiple people to work on your short.

neolee40: That’s exactly the type of character one should have to learn to animate with. Simple and effective…with an interesting look. He looks like a blast to animate (refering to your pivot point guy). Let’s see that animation!!! Let’s see the animation!!!

You’ve got some great poses going on with that character. I’m looking forward to see the animation. I’ve just within the past few months starting putting a lot of focus on extreme poses and hand gesturing. Yeah, yeah, I’m slow.

I don’t have anything that is available for download that I’ve rencently done. There was a thread in here that was an animation competition with a box and sphere. I had a friend loan me some webspace, but I don’t remember the links to the animations I did. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

The only thing I have available is a spot done for work called Dangerous Foods. It was done a little over a year ago. With the exception of modeling and texturing the characters, I did it in three weeks. In the middle of which my father passed away (it was sort of expected though). It was a grueling 3 weeks, but I still enjoyed working on the spot. There’s tons I’d like to change, but the project is long since over. I’ve grown alot as an animator since then and have done other animations, but they’re not available on the internet. I’ve got to get onto the bosses about updating our animations.

Anyways, it’s 11 megs. Remember, it’s not the greatest animation, but it’s still fun. I wished I could do it again with the things I know now. :thumbsdow

I’d love to see an animation gallery, but there are so few posts, it isn’t justified. They do have the new naming conventions for threads posted in the gallery in which you can easily determine it’s content, which was a great idea. So it’s pretty easy to find the animations.

dear Bentllama i recommend that you start & manage some
mini contest/challenge in this forum, which the focus will be on the
motion/timing/movements/tricks/…, not modeling/rendering/lighting & …
something like this cgtalk’s monthly challenge
we did something like that a few months ago & it worked, not bad
(remember Box & Ball?!)
cheers

Hey People This is the new character in action!! I Made it a small .Mpeg and .mov so this time people don't have any trouble Downloading it. Hope you enjoy it?? I was concentrating purly on character animation!! .MPEG (1.2meg) .MOV...

neolee40: I just posted a reply to your thread in the gallery. Great work man. How long have you been animating and how long did it take you to do that animation? Not modeling or setup, just animating the spot?

Yeah, I did the whole project except for modeling the characters and props, and texturing them. That was done before hand. We got the approval and the audio for the spot three weeks before the deadline. I setup the characters (thank God they were simplistic) and animated it. Actually, a work mate did the animation of the close up of the popcorn. He isn’t an animator but wanted to learn so he stayed with me until 2:00 in the morning on a Friday night while I sort of gave him a crash coarse in keyframing and Lightwave. He did good, and I tweaked the curves a little bit for him and helped him through some technical issues, but he pretty much did that section.

Anyways, it was a crunch all the way to the deadline. If you’ll notice, the fingers on the characters very seldom move and remain pretty stiff. I simply didn’t have the time.

Man, I’ve got to get some web space!

ila_solomon: The Box and Sphere contest did work well and was a lot of fun. I agree that there should be some kind of challenge but so few people seem interested. Maybe if enough people give interest, and we come up with some rules and time frames, Bentllama will implement your request.